EXHIBITION Archive
This collaborative exhibition brings together four Bristol-based artists whose three-dimensional practices explore geometry, pattern, and intricate design.
Exhibition Dates: Friday 13th March - Wednesday 25th March
PV: Friday 13th February, 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Opening Hours: Vary, please see event description.
Women by Women comes together through shared experience, mutual support, and the power of collective storytelling.
Exhibition Dates: Friday 6th March - Wednesday 11th March
PV: Friday 6th March, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Opening Hours: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
A Leg Up comes about through professional camaraderie, alliances of support and giving artist friends a leg up.
Exhibition Dates: Saturday 28th February - Wednesday 5th March
PV: Friday 27th February, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | With DJ Paul Spence + improvisational dancer FeeGee.
Opening Hours:
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Umwelt explores how, though we share the same physical space, each of us inhabits our own perceptual world - our umwelt -shaped by our senses, memories, and lived experience.
Exhibition Dates:
Friday 21st February - Tuesday 25th February
PV:
Thursday 20th February, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Regular Opening
Opening Hours:
11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Dialogues with Nature presents works by 15 artists based in Bristol and around the world, exploring our evolving relationship with the natural world.
Exhibition Dates:
Friday 13th February - Wednesday 18th February
PV:
Friday 13th February, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Regular Opening Hours:
10:00 am - 6:00 pm daily
Kate Rymagali’s exhibition explores the human future through the lens of the present, placing artworks that comment on today into imagined future contexts and inviting audiences to question, reflect, and speculate.
Exhibition Dates:
Friday 6th February - Wednesday 11th February 2026
PV: Friday 6th February | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Opening Hours:
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Paper Dance is an exhibition of freestanding sculpture and wall pieces by Hats Aston, inspired by movement and dance, and created using recycled industrial paper, hand-dyed silk, and tissue paper.
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday 31st January - Wednesday 4th February 2026
PV:
Saturday 31st January, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (free) |
Fusion dance class & social dance: 7:00 pm –10:00 pm
Regular Opening Hours:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily
Bristol Remix is a photography exhibition by local photographer Bub (Bubimages), featuring location-based model shoots across Bristol.
Fri, 5 Dec 2025, 6:00–8:30pm (Preview)
Sat 6 – Wed 17 Dec 2025
Mon–Sat, 11:00am–5:00pm
Sun, 11:00am–4:00pm.
Bristol Clay returns this December with its third group exhibition, bringing together twelve local ceramic artists and makers whose work showcases the beauty, versatility and artistry of contemporary ceramics.
Bristol Film: Behind The Scenes is a one-night photography exhibition curated by Katie Toon, showcasing stills and behind-the-scenes moments from independent short films made by local crews and creatives in Bristol’s vibrant film community.
Instagram: @katietoon_stills
Website: katietoon.com
Thu 21 Nov, 6:30–10:00pm (Opening Night)
Fri 22 – Tue 26 Nov, 11:00am–6:00pm (Open Daily, Free Entry)
MURMUR/ation brings together Bristol-based artists exploring nature, the body, memory, and transformation. Like the shifting movement of starlings, the exhibition celebrates dialogue, connection, and collective rhythm.
Curated by baffcage collective.
Thrus 13 Nov 2025, 7:00–10:00pm (Private View)
Friday 15 – Wed 19 Nov 2025, 11:00am–6:00pm (Open Daily, Free Entry)
Major Arcana unites 22 Bristol-based illustrators in a visionary reinterpretation of the Tarot’s most iconic cards, from The Fool to The World. Each artist brings their own style to this contemporary exploration of mysticism, storytelling, and self-discovery, with a limited-edition tarot deck and prints available.
A Homage to Woman Magic: Celebrating the Goddess Within Us
Fri 7 Nov – Wed 12 Nov 2025.
Fri 7 Nov 2025, 5:00–7:00pm (Public Preview & Vernissage)
Sat 8 Nov 2025, 12:00–7:00pm (Spiral Ritual Performance at 12:00, Gallery Open)
Sun 9 – Tue 11 Nov 2025, 11:00am–6:00pm (Open Daily)
Wed 12 Nov 2025, 11:00am–6:00pm (Meet the Artist: Wendy Sharpe, afternoon event)
A Homage to Woman Magic brings together women artists whose works explore mythology, empowerment, and transformation. From Celtic archetypes to contemporary heroine myths, the exhibition reimagines the feminine as creator, storyteller, and symbol of resilience, celebrating womanhood in its many magical forms.
Thurs 30 Oct 2025 18:30 – Wed, 5 Nov 2025 18:00
Centrespace Gallery & Studios (map)
Thurs 30 Oct 2025, 6:30–9:00pm (Private View)
Fri 31st Nov – Wed 5 Nov 2025, 10:00am–6:00pm (Open Daily, Free Entry)
Wild Within brings together five Bristol-based female abstract artists, four painters and one ceramicist, whose expressive, intuitive practices celebrate freedom, emotion, and connection to nature. Their works embody empowerment through self-expression, exploring femininity, creativity, and the natural world through vivid colour, rich texture, playful form, and raw emotion.
Sat 25 Oct 2025, 12pm – 5pm (ticketed immersive shows every 15 mins, 8 min duration).
Sun 26 Oct 2025, 12pm – 5pm (ticketed immersive shows every 15 mins, 8 min duration).
Phycologica is an interactive installation where participants exchange breath with microalgae, co-creating a bioluminescent display accompanied by hydrophonic soundscapes and multi-sensory elements. The work highlights algae’s role in carbon capture and envisions sustainable, reciprocal ways of living with our life-support systems.
Open Hours: Daily, Sat 18th - Wed 22nd, 1 1am – 4pm.
Special Event: Tue 21 Oct 2025 — free drop-in stitch & print activity.
Hidden Gems marks 30 years of the Gordano Textile Artists collective, with works in stitch, print, mixed media, and collage. From miniatures to large wall hangings and sculptural forms, the exhibition explores the precious, the overlooked, and the quietly radiant, including a special series inspired by pearls.
Private View: Fri 10th Oct, 6pm – 9pm & Sat 11th Oct, 6pm – 9pm
Open: Sat 11th – Wed 15th Oct, 10am – 6pm
Finissage: Wed 15th Oct, 6pm – 8pm
Special Event: Sun 12th Oct – Pete Judge in concert (see website for details & tickets)
WE’RE HERE NOW brings together Bristol-based illustrators Henning Löhlein, Joe Berger, Adrian Barclay, and Danny Jenkins.
Private View: Fri 3rd Oct, 6pm – 9pm
Open: Sat 4th – Sun 5th Oct, 11am – 5pm
Mon 6th – Wed 8th Oct, 12pm – 4pm
Set List brings together Helen Acklam, Victoria Coombes, Helen Grant, and Nicky Hodge in an improvisational exhibition exploring rhythm, surfaces, and process.
Private View: Fri 26th Sept, 6pm - 9pm
Open Daily: Sat 27th - Wed 30th Sept, 11am - 6pm
UWE MA Fine Art students present: SKIN. Rachael Kennedy, Claire Taylor, Shula Soleman, Tom Price, Akasha Dryden, Charlie Lockwood, Nicolas Schneider.
Private View: Fri 19th Sept, 6pm - 10pm
Opening Daily: Sat 20th - Wed 24th, 12pm
Weekend and Monday events and times listed on page.
This exhibition & series of events is happening because our debut LP ‘Dying’ was ten years old this year, and when you realise something like this is ten years old, you tend to ponder those times.
Open Daily: 5th - 17th Sept, 11am - 6pm
Elusive Sense: On the Fluid Boundaries of Perception asks what becomes of our senses in an era where the boundary between the human and the technological is increasingly blurred.
Private View: Fri 15th Aug, 6 pm - 9 pm
Open Daily: Sat 16th - Wed 20th Aug, 11 am - 6 pm
Entering its 5th glorious year, a joint exhibition of Rose’s ceramics and Kelvin’s collages, including a few collaborations.
Private View: Fri 8th Aug, 6 pm - 9 pm
Open Daily: Sat 9th - Tue 12th Aug, 11 am - 5pm
British artist and printmaker Ben Goodman is best known for his use of traditional wood engraving to create intricate and powerful portraits.
Private view: Friday 1st August 7 pm - 10 pm
Open Daily: Sat 2nd - Wed 6th August: 12 pm - 6 pm
Seadog Collective are Bristol-based illustrators Sophia Checkley, Edie Woolf, Ang Hui Qing and Jay Arthur Simpson.
Opening Event: Friday 25th 10 am– 9.30 pm,
Open Daily: Sat 26th — Weds 30th, 10 am—5pm
The Zapartistas 3 are: Jimmers, Marcelle Bacchus & Carl Simpson
Opening night: Friday 18th July 7 pm - 10 pm
Open daily: Sat 19 – Weds 23 July, 11 am to 10 pm (7 pm close on Sun & Mon)
Alaric's new sculptures explore how we as humans interact in urban areas and how this usually affects marginalised communities.
Private View - 11th July, 7 pm - 10 pm
Open Daily - Sat 12th - Wed 16th July, 11am - 6pm
An exhibition run by illustrators Laurel Molly and Lucy Thomas. The culmination of these illustrations in this exhibition is to showcase the inspiration they have drawn from daily life around the world.
Private View: Fri 4th July 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening Hours: Sat 5th - Wed 9th July, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
PRESSED PERSPECTIVES vol.2 presents a rich spectrum of contemporary printmaking from the MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking cohort at UWE.
Private View: Fri 27 June, 6 - 9 pm
Opening Times: Sat 28 June – Wed 2 July, 11 am - 5 pm
Join this year’s Bath Spa Fine Art graduates as they showcase a selection of works following their degree show!
Private Veiw: Fri 13th, 6pm - 10pm
Open Daily: Sat 14th - Wed 18th, 10am - 5pm
Humans and nature and all things in between. This exhibition is a collaboration of 41 Falmouth University, Marine and Natural History photographers, who have co-curated it as their degree show.